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(artists) Kohra

Kohra (Urdu - fog or mist) creates a spatial, mystical and ethereal dance music experience. Versatile, hypnotic and forward-thinking he propels...

(news) Innerworld Presents Dense Dance Soundscapes With Debut EP 'Vibrations'

Minimal techno pioneers like Jeff Mills have been espousing the view that dance music can be for more than just dancing but rather expressing more...

(news) ARTIFVCT Adds Emotive Depth To Techno On Debut Album 'Beneath The Surface'

Delhi-based producer Siddharth Sharma, better known as ARTIFVCT, just released his debut album 'Beneath the Surface' via Qilla Records. With a...

(news) Boiler Room Announces Nikki Nair, Parris, SUCHI & More For Bangalore, Mumbai & Hyderabad Shows

Earlier this month, Boiler Room announced its return to India with shows across Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad between May 26 – May 29. With the...

(news) Jay Pei Gets Cinematic & Gentle On New EP 'Squares'

New Delhi-based producer Jay Pei, who is usually known for his club-friendly productions, makes a stylistic shift towards cinematic gentle strings and...

(news) Culture Connects Returns With Sushant Divgikar, Eki Shola, Burudu & More For Workshops, Conversations & Performances

'Culture Connects', the year-long series of online and offline events by Wild City and San Francisco-based digital innovators MUTEK.SF in...

(news) Three Oscillators, Corridors & More Feature On Qilla Records’ ‘Forte, Vol. 8’

India’s premier electronic music label Qilla Records returned with the eighth edition of their leftfield electronica compilation ‘Forte’. After...

(news) Watch: Full Streams From Wild City x Boiler Room Takeover Featuring Kohra, Arushi Jain & More

Earlier this year, global broadcasting platform Boiler Room partnered with Ballantine’s for a scheme, disbursing grants to community-driven...

(news) Boiler Room x Wild City To Host Kohra, ramsha, Spryk: APEX & More For ‘Streaming From Isolation’ Series

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit alongside all associated lockdowns and shutdown of nightlife as we know it, Boiler Room has continued to offer...

(news) Jay Pei Brings Mystical Textures To The Dance Floor With ‘Ocean of Stars’

Characteristically hard-hitting yet subtly evolving four on the floor drum breaks, submerging ethereal textures of ambient pads, and melodic runs over...

(news) Qilla Records Present An Immersive Ambient Offering With ‘Forte, Vol. 7’

Qilla Records has just released the seventh edition of their obscure electronica compilation ‘Forte’, dropping the label’s most ambient-rooted...

(news) Listen: ‘Knowbot’ By Vridian

New Delhi-based DJ and producer Vridian has just released his EP ‘Knowbot’, reeling his brooding sound from more left-field realms for a...

(features) 2022 In Review

2022 – the year that the world seemed to finally emerge out of the nightmare that was the COVID-19 pandemic. The year wasn’t without its tragedies...

(features) 2020 In Review

To fully grasp all that the year 2020 entailed, it’s important to briefly reflect on how things were at the start of it. India was seething with...

(features) The Evolving Role Of Labels In South Asia

Old-timey incarnations of record labels — glitz, glamour, big money and big exploitation — are great to watch in movies, but their relevance has...

(features) “Leaping Into Whatever I Don’t Know”: Kohra On Rediscovering Cultural Heritage, 17th-Century Poetry & Eternal Themes On ‘akhõ’

Madhav Shorey aka Kohra was in Mauritius for a gig when he decided to take a break, relax and meditate in the island’s serene natural landscapes....

(features) 2019 In Review

2019... the year Donald Trump was (almost) impeached, the year Greta Thunberg woke the world to the climate crisis, the year citizens of India came...

(features) A Comprehensive Guide To The Music At Magnetic Fields 2019

The music lineup at Magnetic Fields Festival is bigger this year than ever before. Not only does the festival have a vast array of art and experiences...

(features) ‘Hail the record. Join the revolution’: A Glimpse Into India’s Vinyl Revival

Streaming services appear hell-bent on world domination, and they may have succeeded had there not been a particularly resilient format of music that...

(features) Introducing: Social Co Workers

The Social Hauz Khas has been up and running for a month now and there’s been a lot of talk of the space’s collaborative and innovative work...

(features) How The Indie Label Works: Straight From The Horse’s Mouth: Part 1

In terms of music sales, there’s no denying that India is a strange market. Film soundtracks (both those in Hindi and in regional languages) and...

(features) How To Start A Record Label In India

Madhav (a.k.a Kohra) and I set up Qilla Records in 2010. The idea back then was to have a publishing platform for sounds that we enjoyed as selectors...

(features) B.L.O.T: Top 5 Tracks Of The Moment

For those of you not in the know, B.L.O.T is an acronym for the Basic Love of Things. It's also a multidisciplinary project helmed by Gaurav Malaker...

(mixes) Wild City #191: ELM

After years of collaborative output with Vir RC as part of the burgeoning electronic duo Vridian, Siddhant Jain ventured out last year into his solo...

(mixes) Wild City #109: Audio Units

Bangalore based duo Audio Units showcases a more downtempo, laid back-side to their aesthetic in Wild City Mix #109. Brothers Ashwin Baburao and...

(mixes) Wild City 050: Gaurav Malaker

Wild City #050 (yes, it is a landmark) comes from Gaurav Malaker, a producer best known as one half of India's leading multidisciplinary audio/visual...

(mixes) Wild City 026: Kohra Presents: Open Dialect

Delhi based Qilla Records has fast become one of the country's key underground powerhouses, a name now associated internationally with underground...

(mixes) Wild City 007: D-Nox & Beckers

Born out of a shared vision of musical inspiration, the duo of D-Nox & Beckers has, over the last 6 years, firmly entrenched itself into the...

(mixes) Wild City 003: BLOT

B.L.O.T is an acronym for the Basic Love of Things. It's also a multidisciplinary project helmed by Gaurav Malaker and Avinash Kumar, with the sole...

(events) FILM & SHFT

Nightvibe x Raasta Delhi x Vh1 India in association with Qilla Records presents another edition of Abstrakt- a once a month event dedicated to quality...

(events) Wild City Presents 'Selectors' #003: Record Store Day Fair

Artists Jonny Rock A mainstay in London's electronic underground music scene for nearly two decades, Jonny Rock has laid down tracks on some of the...

(events) Sunju Hargun, Kohra & VRIDIAN

Sunju Hargun Born and and located in Thailand with Indian and Japanese roots, Sunju is the co-founder of the Siamese Twins record label focusing on...